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Dr Ben Gray1 1University of Otago Wellington, Newtown Wellington, New Zealand The Best Interest Standard (BIS) has been promoted for making decisions for children who lack capacity. This is uncontroversial: it describes standard modern patient centred care. The Calgary Cambridge...

L. Gillam1, M.Spriggs, C.Delany, M.McCarthy. 1University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, 2Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Australia Clinical Ethics Services are sometimes involved in cases where parents do not want their child to be told the truth about their medical condition. Two examples...

Professor John Tobin1 1Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne There is an increasing trend to view issues which have traditionally been the province of bioethics through the lens of human rights.  The aim of this paper is to examine this...

Professor Ron Paterson1 1 Professor of Law, University of Auckland    In what circumstances is it appropriate to impose a chaperone condition on the registration of a health practitioner to protect patients while allegations of sexual misconduct are investigated? I have been...

Tamra Lysaght1 1 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore. Block MD11 #02-03, 10 Medical Drive Singapore 119228. Email: tlysaght@nus.edu.sg In 2014, the Japanese National Diet introduced a new regulatory framework to promote the clinical translation of stem cells...

Stacy M. Carter1 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine The use of technologies to screen for risk of non-communicable disease in asymptomatic people sits on the boundary between public health and clinical health care. This leaves...

Dr Wendy Lipworth1, Professor Miles Little1, Professor Kathleen Montgomery1,2 1University Of Sydney 2University of California   Medicine is deeply intertwined with the pharmaceutical industry, and much medical practice, research and policymaking takes place at this intersection. While connections between medicine...

Jean Hay Smith1, Mely Brown1 Gareth Treharne2, Lynley Anderson3, 1 Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand 2 Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 3 Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Clinician-researchers may...

Susan E. MacDonald MD MHSc FCFP 1, Sarah LeBlanc MD MSc CCFP 2, 1 Associate Professor, Dept of Family Medicine, Queen’s Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.  K7L 5E9 2 Resident, Dept of Family Medicine, Queen’s University...

Oliver J. Kim1 1 Cross-Border Health, 5100 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA, USA, 22204, okim@crossborderhealth.org Following the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the American healthcare system is rapidly transforming in ways that are both exciting but potentially in conflict. On...